Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity

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• 作者：Yan He ; J Gregory Caporaso ; Xiao-Tao Jiang ; Hua-Fang Sheng ; Susan M Huse…
• 刊名：Microbiome
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：3
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,146 KB
• 刊物主题：Medical Microbiology; Bioinformatics; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Virology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：2049-2618

文摘

Background The operational taxonomic unit (OTU) is widely used in microbial ecology. Reproducibility in microbial ecology research depends on the reliability of OTU-based 16S ribosomal subunit RNA (rRNA) analyses.